Lives remembered: Sir Timothy Raison and Sir Robin Mountfield

Hugh Samson writes: Your obituary of Timothy Raison (Nov 9) omitted any mention of World Refugee Year (1959-60). This was his brainchild and it initiated an international humanitarian campaign, resettling over 100,000 European refugees from the 1939-45 war and bringing long-overdue focus on the million Chinese in Hong Kong who had fled the Communist mainland, and on the disgraceful failure of member states of the UN to honour their financial pledges to UNRWA in respect of the Palestinian refugees.

The idea of a World Refugee Year came to Raison as Editor of Crossbow in 1958 after he had been moved to anger by his visit to refugee camps in Jordan. He asked Christopher Chataway and Trevor Philpott of Picture Post to write…